Weighing scale



Feb. 17, 1931. E 1L, H0TT 1,793,276

WEIGHING SCALE Filed June l, 1929 Patented Feb. 17, 1931 `UNITED STATES EDWARD L. CHOTT, F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS WEIGHING SCALE rApplication led .Tune 1, 1929.

l My present invention which is an improvement over the device shown in my copending application Serial No. 257,182, filed j February 27 1928,1'elates in general to weigh- 6 ing sca-les, and more particularly to a scale 1 providing means for the correct relative proportioning of ingredients employed in producing a given compound or mixture.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a scale of the kind described whereby the relative proportions of amalgams and chemical mixtures of diverse formulae may be automatically determined.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved scale of the kind indicated for the proportioning of the amalgams used in dental work.

Additional objects and advantages of the method and construction employed will appear more fully in the hereinafter specification when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the device;

Fig. 2 is an elevational view, partly in section, with certain parts broken away.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on lines 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of a funnel which may be employed with the device in filling capsules.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary enlarged bottom plan view of one of the elements'connected to the counter-balancing weight.

In the drawings wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views, 11 designates a base supported on rubber pads 12 which are secured in lugs 13 formed integrally with the base 11. At one end of the base 11 is a post 14 having a shoulder 14l engaging a washer 15 on the base 11, and a threaded end 16 which serves to secure the post 14 to base 11. To the top of the post 14 a knurled adjusting head 17 is secured, which serves as a means of either removing the post or adjusting it to the desired height as a rest for the end of the scale beam to be hereinafter described. At the other end of the base 11,

Serial No. 367,707.

a second post 18 having a continuously threaded shank 19 is secured in a hole 2O in the base. About the shank 19, acompression spring 21 is coiled, the spring being clampingly compressed between the base 11 and the integrally formed knurled head 22 of post 18, and serving as a means of retaining the head 22 at the height desired as a stop or rest for the other end of the scale beam.

The base 11 is also provided with a pair of upwardly projecting standards 23, 24, which are threaded in the base and secured thereto by nuts 25, it being observed that these standards have a shouldered portion 26, 27 between which and the upper surface of the base 11, washers 28 are elampingly secured. As best shown in Figure 3, it will bev observed that the upper extremities of the posts 23, 24 are cupped to provide circular recesses 29, 30, in which the scale beam supporting fulcrum pins 31, 32 seat. The fulcrum pins 31, 32 which are formed with knurled adjusting heads 33, 34 are passed through holes in a link 35 which latter serves to retain them in spaced relation and through registering holes in a yoke 36 having laterally projecting lugs 38, 39 and a depending integrally formed horizontally positioned socket which latter consists of a short section of split cylinder 40 in which is threaded the shank 41 of adjusting member B having an enlarged knurled counter-balancing head 42. The Shanks of the fulcrum pins 31, 32 as best shown in Fig. 6, are threadedly engaged by nuts 43 having square or rectilinear edges 44 contacting with the periphery of the yoke 36, these edges 44 preventing rotation of the nuts 43 when the fulcrum pins 31, 32 are turned. The counter-balancing element B, it will later be seen, forms an important feature of the present invention.A

Clampingly secured between the link 35 and the yoke 36 is the scale beam 45 which may be formed of vulcanized rubber or other suitable material, has a gutter 46 which communicates with a funnel-shaped cup 47 at one end of the beam, and with a comparatively shallow dish 48 at the other end of the beam, the dish 48 being provided with a -downwardly projecting pin 49, which is Y The scale beam 45, it will beA observed, is provided witha graduated scale 50, and at a point adjacent the dish 48 withainotation 151 which latter is intended to represent the average amount o1c mercury which is to be placed in the dish 48, which communicates fthrough the gutter 46 with the unnelshapedicup 47. The base 11 may be further provided with vertically positioned post 52.asva lconvenient mount for a small funnel 53 used Ain' illing,l

-tjhescapsules with the dental .amalgame fem- Yployed.

.The ypresent invention by :means `of Ythe lfcounterbalancing` element B `ait-Orde 4*a iconivenient Ameans vof adjustingthe:sca-le1` arml, thisgbeing.accomplished byiturning the head r42 which results in longitudinally shifting ithe member B `through cylinder and con sequently'shifting' the center of agravity of scale beam J By this procedure the .position voffthe lhead @relatively to the `ulerum pinsl, 32 ischanged. :T'heoperation of the present invention has been sin epart indicated above, .but .will now'be fully understood vtrom the vfollowingdescription: l Y

Theamalgams used Lin dentistryfare gen- .ferally prepared by the dentistlimmediately I.pniorto actual use, y-in 'order .fto avoid-a 'premature -hardening olthefamalgam. The so- 'called silver amalgams are lfgenera'lly based .on ga 67% `:silver :alloy vwhich is tritura-ted in -a mortar with :sufficient anercuryito form the well known silver amalgam-usedfas lill- ;ing for cavities 'in iteeth. The plastic lconsisten cy of the freshly 4mixed silver Iam algam isfof vcourse dependent upon ithe relative fproportion of mercury to :the'silverlalloyyitbeing' desirable to have 4an feasily moldable fpaste. f

By meansof my scale 'I am =now :enabled .toeffect afgreat convenience Ain the weighing 1and Vmixing vof )the fcomponents of the above referred to amalgfams in fthe following'man-y Upon. vinspection of Figs. 1, 2 and .3, rthe length Z of the vright hand or power arm sectionf'o-f the scalebeam45 from the fulcrum y 'pins 31, 32 will be found -greater lthan the length of the left .hand for -the weight arm sectionof el of thesame scale beam, :theele- Ament B ser-ving` to counter-balance the -disproportionate sections Z andd ot'thescale beann'thu's producing equilibrium.

Itfwill now be apparent that agivenweight of mercury placed inthe dish 48 will require v.a disproportionate smaller weigh-t of silver alloy to be putin vthecup 47 in orderto coun-- Vter-balance thescale b eannthis being in accordance with the elementary laws of the lever as =deiined in .the equation wdr-Pd',

which lV is the weight, P the power arm, and

Z-d the distances or lengths of the left and right hand sections of the scale beam 45, which in the present instance is the lever arm. It will be observed that when the weighted adjusting head 42 of the member BV is turned in order to shittlongitudinally, its .position transverselyoff the "fulcrum pms 31, 32, a weight moment7 wlll be imposed on Vthe weight arm section CZ of the scale beam 45,.requiringacompensating, greater or less weio'ht or material tobe placed on the alloy 'receiving or power arm l of the scale beam 45. .It will be evident, therefore, thatthe necessary ingredients of an indefinite num- .ber of alloys fand other reompounds magy be automatically proportioned :without .fthe ineicessity of an individual preliminary Weigh- ,in Y Y It will Vturther 'be (obvious that :after the scale beam`45 has been prelimin-arily -slidgto a positionsuitable foriproducing an amalgam of greaterror less proportionof-mercuryfor silver alloy, subsequentmixturesoffthe :same formula will .lb-e jautomatically .arrived eat by merely pouring -in Athe ingredients into ftheir Yrespective Ereceptacles, `.the dish '.48 and cup 47 until the scale beam `,43- swingsiintofequiliblriuni. Y

Heretofore after the preliminary .weigh- .ing of .the ingredients, it was necessary l-to pour same into a separate vessel preparatory toztrituration. ,The gutter 46' now permits the direct transfer of 'the mercury -in {dish 48 Ainto thefoup 47 .containing-the silver alloy.

The lentire contents yof -cup 47 may now be worked intothe usual amalgam paste, :after dumping into a mortar.

Vhile I have described -my invention Apar ticularly vwith :regard to the preparationof f, .dental amalgame, l have found the -device to be equally convenient when used Vtor Vthe -mixingof paints, chemicals, food products,

etc., and in fact wherever a mixture fofidei =nite given-proportionsis desired. The rsame method, as set forthabove, willfTOvern ithe preparation of these indicated mixtures my scale, *automaticv proportioning of Vzthe components beingfobtained as set orthabove.

It will be apparent-that mydeviceisfsusceptiblefto considerable variation and modiprecise details asset -forthlbut `wishftoavail myself ,of such Lvariations and 4modiiications as Lfall wlithin the 'scope fof Athe zappended claims.

TWhat I claimfas new and desire .tofseCu-re fby Letters Patent is:

illl) fines .fication hence, Ido not confine myself tothe Y 'ilse 2.V A scale of the kind described, comprising a scale beam slidably and adjustably supported on a standard, a gutter formed in said arm providing a means for transposing 5 ingredients from one container to another, and an adjusting weight secured to said scale beam for shifting the center of gravity of the scale beam relatively to said fulcrum. whereby means are provided to autotmatically proportion ingredients for the production of a given mixture.

3. A scale of the kind described, comprising a scale beam, a pair of containers fastened at opposite ends of said beam, a longitudinal j passage-way provided in the beam and connecting said containers, a weight adjustably secured to the beam, a pair of fulcrum pins clampingly engaged with said beam, a support for said fulcrum pins, said weight being adjustable transversely of said fulcrum pins for shifting the center of gravity of said scale beam.

4. A scale of the kind described. compris,- ing a scale beam slidably and adjustably supported on a pair of standards serving as a fulcruin, a container fastened to opposite ends of said scale beam, a gutter provided in the scale beam and connecting one container to the other, and a weight adjustably secured to the scale beam. said weight being longitudinally adjustable relative to said beam, whereby the center of gravity of said scale beam may be shifted for the purpose of automaticallv determining the relative propor- 85 tions of ingredients necessary to a given mixture.

5. A scale of the kind described, comprising a scale beam, a yoke slidably adjustable on said scale beam, said yoke having a socket element fastened thereto, a member longitudinally adjustablein said socket element, and means forming a part of said scale for checking undue swinging motion of said scale beam.

6. A sca-le of the kind described, comprising a base, a pair of standards mounted on said base, a pair of fulcrum pins supported on said pair of standards, a yoke connected to said fulcrum pins and clampingly engaged 5o with a scale beam having a pair of containers at opposite ends thereof, said containers being joined by a communicating gutter shaped in said scale beam, and a rotatably mounted counter-balancing member adjustably secured to said 2 yoke, said counterbalancing member serving to shift the center of gravity of said scale beam relatively to said pair of standards.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

EDWARD L. CHOTT. 

